Because Good Software Is Good Business

After watching application after application fail on launch day or during a routine upgrade, it seems the IT industry is finally waking up and focusing its attention on software quality and software risk. Because of this and other factors, we have seen positive growth numbers in software revenue in the third quarter of this year. And we expect this number to continue trending upward from here on.
You can read more about our growth in a press release we issued this morning, but I wanted to highlight a few key details here on the blog.

There has been a tectonic shift over the past two to three years with businesses realizing that analysis and measurement of critical business software is no longer simply nice to have, but a necessity. Every CIO, CEO, and board member is keenly aware of the fact that the stakes are too high and the size and complexity of mission critical systems has outpaced traditional technological safeguards.

More and more evidence is coming to light that the glitch-filled launch of the Obama Administration’s new healthcare marketplace, HealthCare.gov, was more than simply launch-day traffic overload. Technology experts who’ve gotten access to the site have reported that it appears to be built on a sloppy software foundation full of dead code and improper web-efficiency techniques — hallmarks of a software project rushed to meet a launch deadline.

In the midst of debt ceiling and government shutdown negotiations on Monday, the Obama Administration launched its new online health insurance marketplace — HealthCare.gov — where Americans can go to shop for affordable healthcare.
However, it seems even the federal government isn’t immune from technical snags.